Dr. Itsuki Noda is a professor of Research Faculty of Information Science and Technology in Hokkaido University, Japan.He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D., degrees in engineering fromKyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1995, respectively.He worked at Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) as a researcher since1992, and at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology (the successor of ETL) as a senior researcher since 2000.He was also a visiting researcher of Stanford University in 1999, andworked as a staff of Council of Science and Technology Policy ofJapanese government in 2003.He was a founding member of RoboCup and promoted Soccer SimulationLeague since 1995. He was the president of RoboCup Federation during2014 to 2017. He is now the president of Japanese Society ofArtificial Intelligence. He is also one of founders of a venturecompany, Mirai Share, for taxi-share system.He has been joining and promoting several research projects on AI,robotics, and disaster-and-rescue domains. In addition to SoccerSimulation League, he joined the development of Rescue SimulationLeague, and join Rescue Robot League as a team member. He was amember of the project to develop integrated information sharing andsimulation system of disaster and rescue. The results of the projectwere used to support rescue activity for the most of disaster in Japanincluding the Great East Japan Earthquake. He also leaded a projecton large scale multiagent social simulation system using highperformance computing facilities. Based these results, he is nowpromoting a project on MaaS (mobility as a service) as a nextgeneration transportation system for sustainable smart societies.